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Newspaper Page Text1 THE MORNING NEWB. , J Established 1850. Ihcorporated 1888. 1 ) J. H. ESTILL, President, f A RAINY DAY IN CAMP. THB MSN SCATTERED BY A STORM DURING A SERMON. Everything Pointed to a Beautiful Day When the Storm Came Up—The First Regiment and Two Companies of the Seventh Battalion Opposed to Chlck amauga as a Permanent Location. Chickamauga, Ga., June 21.—T0-day bos been the worst day the the men have seen in camp. It rained hard and the wind blew great guns. Tents have been wrenched, but the soldiers managed to stay inside and be in a way comfortable. It is hard living though. The day opened beautifully and everybody got ready to go to hear their first sermon preached to soldiers here. The buglers sounded the church call at!l;30 o’clock, and the band played sacred airs— in fact the ministers came and opened their text. They read a lesson and offered prayer. Then it thundered, and rain began to drop. THK AUDIENCE SCATTERS. Simultaneously the audience began to scatter and in ten minutes the field was bare. Everybody had sought shelter and rain wsw pouring down. It rained steadily an hour and heavy showers have fallen at short intervals since. The lightning wbb vivid and the day was altogether very dis agreeable even indoors. The men per formed little duty to-night. To-morrow will be their last day. They are sitting about in eaoh others’ tents disouning the site for the permanent location of the en campment. Some want it here and others do not The First Georgia regiment to a man opposes Chickamauga as a site, while the battalion, excepting the Brunswick Riflemen and Valdosta Videttes, favor it to a man. TOO FAR AWAY. Those who oppose it claim that it is too far from the military of the state. Nearly all the soldiers of Georgia live south of Griffin. It requires two days to come and two to go from Chiokamauga. Besides, it is urged that this water hurts the men aud the atmosphere is too damp. The rocks make the men’s feet sore. Besides, the revenue coming from the men encamped is poured iuto Chattanooga and taken out of the state. Some favor Macon, some Griffin and a few would like to see the encampment at Brunswick. Col. TVright of the seventh battalion told his men last night that it was the best place they would be able to find in Georgia, aod that when they returned home from here they would feel as if they bad been off on a vacation. THE LAND COMPANY AT WORK. The Chickamauga Land Company circu lated a petition in the Seventh battalion ask ing that all favoring the sito being here sign it. Nearly all of the men except tho two com panies named attached their signatures. No petition has beeu given the First Geor gia regiment. Col. Mercer said he was doubtful if tho state would locate the camp here. The expense of transportation of the soldiers would be much too heavy. He pre fers Griffin beoause he thinks it is more cen trally located. It may be reached from almost any part of the state the same day. He does not think the opinion of the men will have anything to do with the selection of the permanent site. The legislature, he said, will be governed entirely by what it costs, the state having regard of course to a pleasant site and one which is in no material way objectionable. PREPARING FOR THE GUARDS. Four members of the Savannah Volun teer Guards reached here to-night. They ere Quartermaster Sergeant Dieterich and Commissary Sergeants Van Wagener of Compauy C, Baffin of Company B, and Screven of Company A. They have oome to prepare for the men who are to follow. They have been over the grounds and are well pleased. They advise that the home boys bring rubbers by all means. The Brunswick Riflemen will leave to morrow for home to attend the wedding of J. Mitt Wells, a member of Company 0. Fourteen members of the First regiment left this morning for home. General Manager Green and the new offi cials of the Central railroad stopped here to-day on their way to Birmingham. They spent the night on Lookout mountain. Gen. Alexander was in the party and he went out on Lookout and recognized some points where he was encamped and where he fought during the war. AN INTERESTING SPOT. Chickamauga, Ga., June 20, Camp Chickamauga is just now one of the most interesting places in Georgia. Hundreds of people are visiting here all the time, and the soldiery is receiving such attention as it never recoived before. The men are pleased beyond measure, and they would not care if their time was two weeks instead of one. they have learned lots, and their instruction seems just to have begun. The governor made the men feel proud. He was lavish in bis kind remarks and he was sincere. He really did manifest a great deal of Interest in the camp aud he said he was proud of the men. He repeated what he said in Sa vannah and in other places, that he was ready always to be commanded by the mili tia of Georgia when it wanted;ai(L He is a friend to the soldiers and yet he is not a soldier himself. His reviews do not inpire, but maybe they have more of the real worth. While lifting his little straw hat at each company commander may not be as eloquent as raising a silk bat to the officers, but it may mean more business, ■nd better business for the companies. The governor has demonstrated his friend snip for the militia, and the soldiers are cmeer to him now than they have ever been before. He did not make them a speech when he reviewed them, but his interview Published in the News shows whioh way hi 6 head is set. A PERMANENT ENCAMPMENT. Now the question of a permanent enoamp fflent agitates the minds of the men. Some favor Chickamauga, others do not Some itis too far away from the soldiery of state, others say’ for that reason it is better for the men who seek to be in structed. When a man has passed a week up here at an encampment he feels as if he has been off on a vacation when he got back down in Georgia. It has ten both a source of vacation and instruc tion. Capt. Guerry of the Dawson Guards, wnose opinion is worth something, says that be prefers Chiokamauga or some other place hp this wav to any location in Middle or “'’Uth Georgia. Said he, "I believe, how ever, if we had two enoampments, that is ‘wo sites, say one in this section and an other somewhere on the coast and allow ‘t-e men each year to alternate; go to the coast one time and up here the ® e *t, it would prove more satisfactory to all.” Again Capt. Guerry -aid that he thought the men should be al lowed two weeks in camp. He thought the instruction the men get in oamp in a week far too limited. And since it is but once a year, and the same preparation Is r.eces [ ,f r y >n both cases, the time might, he nought, be easily extended to two weeks, ni* could be done iu the same time that it for the entire militia by the present rrangement, if more went into camp at once. <TI)c JUofnittji ffftotf. TOO LONG A TRIP. . Ca Pi- Brooks of the Savannah Cadets ob jects to the extreme long travel, and so do most of the other captains of the First regiment. They prefer a place more cen trally situated. The captains will take a vote on the site to-morrow, which will ap pear in the News. Of course the oon tiugent of the stato troops encamped here now cannot determine this, but it sets tho pot to boiling for those who come later. The ideas of the war veterars about the arraugement of Camp Chickamauga are in teresting. They have been thinking If ever they Baw a prettier camp. It is hard to te 4 The location is good. The only thing objectionable, tho soldiers say, is that the tents are placed in the wrong positions. They extend down to the drill ground, which is very good; tut they do so at the expense of other thinge mrs necessary than being set down where the parades may be seen. Higher up is a hill, where the stables are located. It it the place for the tents, the men say. Maybe, should the soldiers prefer this to another plaoe, the arrange ment most suitable to tho men will be made next year. NEARLY ALL HAVE WAR MEMBERS. There are only two companies in the entire eqoampmont who have no war mem bers. Every company in the regiment has one or more. The Dublin Light Infantry, a detached company, has notwar members. The Irish Jasper Greens have four war members here. That is including Lieut. Col Reilly, who belonged to tho Greens. Capt. Flannery was captain of the Greens, and fought in the Atlanta campaign and In ’64 In Tennessee. Lieut. McGrath was a private in the company and was captured near Kennesaw mountain. Private Daly went through the war with the Groeus and fonght on this very spot and in Atlanta. Private Flood was captured at Kenuessaw. The Cadets have one member here. He isW. C. Workman. He served In a Caro lina regiment in Northern Virginia, in Gen. Lee’s army, Fitz Hugh Lee cavalry. The Oglethorpe* have Sergeant 8. O. Berrien, the color bearer of the First Geor gia regiment He served in Northern Vir ginia with the Eighth Georgia. The German Volunteers have two: J. M. Bisohoff. Ho served in Hampton’s legion and fought in Virginia. Old man D. Brown, who goes into every encampment with the Germans, belongs to the Dekolb Rifles and fought on Morris Island. Capt, Dixon of the Blues entered the army as fifth corporal and oamo out as captal 1. He fought iu Georgia at different times under Gens. Johnston, Hood, Walker, and Cleburne. J. E. Campos, of the same com pauy, happened to be in Florida at the time of the war, and he enlisted with the Eighth Florida regiment and fought iu Virginia, being wounded three times. The captains of the First regiment are men engaged in nearly every pursuit Those of the Seventh battalion are lawyers except one, and he is a newspaper man. NOTES OK THE SOLDIERS. L’ rquhart of the Cadets was made orderly for the commandant to-day. He is a big natured, fine looking young man, born a soldier, but the boys say to-day is the only time he has ever appered “orderly” siuoe they have known him. Secretary Tally of the Cadets has been dubbed “mother” by the men. When he is in his evening robe sewing on buttons for the men and grumb ling at the hardships of this life, and won dering where in thunder be will plunge when he leaves this world, he is the very picture of a grumpled mother-in-law or a “freeslin” chicken. If it were not for Tally, though, the boys would go almost to pieces. He finds everything for them, doctors them, mend their clothes, and keeps them straight generally. The shower baths of each oompany are splendid. It Is a luxury which most of the meu enjoy, sometimes three times and oftener a day. The only real hard thing said against them, in the face of all the good said, was to-day when Tug Wilson was on bis way to get a shower and the first sergeant halted him to get ready for drill. Wilson liked to have wept. When the boys were disposed to guy him, he looked mean and said: “Don’t keer er cuss, ’fs not regu lation to wash nohow.” HE LOVES SLEEP. Poor Mr. Knox happens to be an Irish Jasper Green who loves sleep. It is said that he can converse as readily and as in telligently then as any other time, the only thing is he doesn’t remember the subject matter. He talks first of whipping a negro, then he talks love. The othor night two members of tho company, one of which was Jimmie Gallaher, slipped into Knox’s tent and, lifting him out softly, moved toward the guard teut with the sleeping man. It was their idea to report to the officer of the guard that Knox had been picked up iu the woods, and there was cause to suspect foul play. Before they got there, though, the goddess, clear-eyed Athena, removed sleep from his eyes, and Knox set the wild echoes flying. The men dropped their burdens and fled. Knox did not reoognize either, but he is searohiug the camp for Information. When the affair is alluded to he grits his teeth and is utterly inconsolable. Robt. Pepper was appointed twice to-day to posts of duty by the colonel command ing. Pepper is little iu stature, but he is monstrous lofty, the boys say, In his ideas. He can shovel dirt and scoop up rocks, though, like thunder. McCarthy of the Greens is the hand somest man here. Now, one of bis lady friends told me this, aud then he looks well any way. Z. D. R. OFF FOR CHICK AM AUGA. The Columbus Guards Leave Home for the Encampment. Columbus, Qa., June 21.—A large crowd assembled at tbe Union depot before 6 o’clock this morning to witness the depart ure of the Columbus Guards for Chicka mauga. The company presented a hand some appearance and left Columbus in fine spirits, carrying with them the best wishes of the entire city. Before leaving the com pany breakfasted at tbe Kankin House as the guest of Capt. C’hapnell, their former commander. The affair was a most pleas* ant one. and the company expressed their high appreciation of the nice compliments paid them by Capt. Chappell. The Guards will be the recipients of further honors while in Atlanta. CHATTANOOGA’S NEW ROAD. Regular Trains to Gadsden to Begin Running To-day. Chattanooga, Trnn., June 21.—The Chattanooga Southern railway has been completed from this city to Gadsden, Ala., a distance of seventy-two miles, and regu lar train service will commence to-morrow. This road is strictly a Chattanooga enter prise, being an offspring of tbe Chattanooga Union railway, a belt line of this city. The Chattanooga Southern penetrates a rich country on the south side of Lookout mountain, extending across the northern part of Georgia and North Alabama. This large area of country has heretofore bad no railroad facilities closer than fifty miles. An excellent agricultural section is opened up and exceptionally rich deposits of coal, iron, clay and stone are reached. The open ing of tbe road will be formally celebrated in this city by a monster Fourth of July celebration. SENATOR M’DONALD DEAD HE KNEW THE BND WAS NEAR, BUT HAD NO FEAR. Personal Directions Given for the Funeral Arrangements and the Dis position of Some of His Affairs—A Farewell Handshake for Eaoh Mem ber of His Family—A Pathetlo Story. Indianapolis, Ind, June 21.—Dr. Run neil, the attending physician, gave it as his opinion at 9 o’clock this evening that ex- Sanator McDonald oould not survive the night. He is conscious and aware that his end is near, and this afternoon gave direc tions for his funeral, etc. HOW THE MORNING PASSED. Early this morning the unfavorable symptoms of several days ago reappeared. During the forenoon the sufferer had an attack of vomiting and Dr. Runnels took the vessel to the window to examine the contents. The physician shook his head dubiously. Mr. McDonald bad followed every movement, and when the physician returned to his bedside he inquired: “Is that your verdict, doctor?" “Yes,” said the physician sadly. The announcement did not disturb the patient's serenity at all. “Do you ooutemplate the change with auy trepidation?” inquired the doctor. "Not in the least,” was the reply with a smile. CONTINUED TO GROW WORSE. During the day the patient’s condition continued to grow more serious. He oould retaiu no nourishment whatever, and the little remaning of his former strength slowly ebbed away. But consciousness never departed. During the afternoon Rev. Mr. Miliburn was sent for and administered tho sacrament. Then Mr. McDonald called his family and some intimate friends about him, and calmly, serenely, as if the occasion were one of the most ordi nary kind, be gave directions for hiß funeral arrangements aud the disposition of some of his personal affairs. In the presence of all, he said, he wished to give testimony to his faith in God’s saving grace. Then he grasped each by the hand aud bade them good-by, saying that he oould see no more callers.' His auditors thus dismissed, the dying man surrendered himself to the care of his obysician to await the coming of the inevitable. THE END. Ex-Senator MoDonald died at 11:35 o'clock to-night. He passed away very peacefully, without a struggle, surrounded by his family, who were all in attendance at the bedside. A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. Joseph Ewing MoDonald was bom in Butler county, Ohio, Aug. 29, 1819. In his 13th year be was apprenticed to a saddler. He graduated from Wabash College, Craw fordsville, Ind., when he was 22 years of age, having supported himself while at college by working at his trade. He studied tsiw and was admitted to the bar In 1844. In 1856 he was elected attorney general by the democrats, and in 1859 he removed to Indianapolis, where he resided until his death. He was elected to congress in 1848, but was defeated for re election. In 1854 ho was the democratic candidate for governor, and defeated. In 1875 he was elected to the United States Senate and served until 1881. While In that body he took a conspicuous part in the debates. AN EXCURSION T.tAIN WRECKED. One Man Killed and More Than 30 Persons Injured. Cleveland, 0., June 21.— An exoursion train of fifteen cars which left this oity this afternoon on the Niokle Plate Railway jumped the traok near Dover, 0., and Boven cars were wrecked. The train was loaded with street railway employes and their families who were going to Oak Point, a pleasure resort on the lake shore. One man was killed and more than thirty persons wero injured. When the accident occurred the train was running about thirty miles au hour. The engine went down the bank on one side, seven cars being thrown across the rails in both direc tions. One coach split in two aud tbe others were badly smashed. HAD TO BE CHOPPED OUT. Rogers, the man killed, was oaught in the wreck and had to be chopped out. The engineer and fireman escaped by jumping. Farmers living near the scene of the acci dent came to the rescue and the injured were taken oare of uutil a corps of physicians sent from Cleve land arrived on the scene. The seriously worn ded were then brought to the city and taken to the hospitals. The engine was running backward at the time of the smash-up, though it is said the acci dent was due to the spreading of the rails. The loss to the companv will amount to several thousand dollars. Ths track will not be cleared before to-morrow. KILLED BY LIGHTNING. A Man Felled to the Floor of a Room in Hia Own House. Knoxville, Tenn., June 21.— There was a terrible electric storm here this morn ing. John Humphreys, with his family aud his brother, wore sitting in a bedroom at his home on Euclid avenue watching the storm. It becoming dark, Humphreys stepped to a window to raise the curtain, when an awful flash came and Humphreys fell to the floor. His brother was badly Bhocked, and his little daughter knocked dawn. An investigation showed that Hum phrey had been instantly killed. CAPE MAY B VISITORS. The President at Church—Mra. Harri son on the Beach. Philadelphia, Pa., June 21.—A special to the Ledger from Cape May Point says that President Harrison, Mrs. Williams and Miss Warfield attended services this morn ing at the Biddle Memorial Presbyterian church. Mrs. Harrison did not attend church, but spent the morning looking after the ohildren, who were on the beach with their nurses In the afternoon a heavy rain storm kent tbe presidential family indoors. A Postoffice Burned. Birmingham,'Ala., June 121.—An in cendiary Are last night burned the postof flee at MoLauahan Springs, Morgan county. All the postoffice records, stamps, etc., were burned, together with the stock of goods in the store where the postofiice was kept. The loss is $1,500. Seven Negroes Drowned. Baltimore, Md., June 2L—Yesterday morning a party of colored cotton pickers came to Baltimore from Chairs’ Farm. While returning at night in a buggy seven were drowned in Curtis Creek. Canada’s “Rebels.” Montreal, June 21.—Fifty thousand people witnessed the ceremonies in Cote des Nigies cemetery to-day in honor of “the rebels of 1637-’38.” SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1891. A MAN AND A NEGRESS SLAIN. The Killing Done by Tbrse Men Wbo Pursued the Former. Washington, June 21.—A special to the Pott from Winston, N. C., says two murders were committed last night in North Win ston. The parties killed were a white man named John Smith, a railroad bridge builder.and a colored married woman named Mary Gains, at wboee horn™ the killing took place, the white man having takeu refuge them whan pursued by three unknown men. William Walker (white), was armsted on a charge of being implicated in the crime, but the other two white men connected with the affair have so far eluded arrest, MISS S. B. PACKARD DEAD. She Was One of tbe Founders of Spel man Institute. Washington, June 21.—Miss 8. B. Pack ard died here this morniug. Miss Packard and Miss H. E. Giles were the founders and associate principals of Spelman Seminary at Atlanta, Ga., the largest and one of the most successful schools for oolored girls in the entire south. The school hail just cel ebrated its tenth anniversary, and the ladies were on their way north for their usual summer vacation. Mis* Packard was a woman of unusual ability and great admin istrative skill. She was widely known, both north and south. MURDER AND SUICIDE. A Flagman Kills Himself After Mor tally Wounding a Detective. Washington, June 91.—A special to the Post from Roanoke, Va., says: Houston O’Benchain of that city shot and mortally wounded H. N. Trout at TroutvlUe, about lea miles from Roanoke, to-day. O'Bren ebain accused Trout of-ciroulating reports derogatory to his character. The mur derer then went to a house close by and committed suicide. Trout was a detective and O’Benchain a flagman. THREW HIS SON INTO THK SEA. A Steerage Passenger Becomes Insane While Croß3lrg the Atlantic. New York, June 21. —Tbe steamer La Bretagne, which arrived hero to-day from Havre, reports that Joseph Feys, aged 46 years, a steerage passenger, a Dative of Switzerland, while conversing with his family, consisting of his wife and five children, suddenly dragged his 5-year-old son Pierre from his mother’s arms aud threw him into the sea. The ohild was lost and the fnther, who was apparently insane, was seized by the officers of tho ship and put Id irons. He bad threatened to throw all of his children overboard. MILITIA IN A COLLISION. Two Trains Can’t Pass om a Single Track Even in Ireland. Londonderry, June 21.—An empty train collided with a train carrying a body of militia on a single track railway two miles from Londonderry to-day. The driver of the militia train was killed, the fireman fatally hurt, and scores of militia and others Injured. The first three car riages of the militia train, laden with lug gage, were smashed to splinters. Had they been occupied by militia the casualties would have been much greater. UGLY COTTON RUMORS. Fears that tho Great Depression Will Bring on Failures. London, Jane 2L— Disquieting rumors are current about cotton troubles in Liver pool, but it is hoped that the excellent clear ing house system, compelling weak oper ators to close unwise bargains before becom ing too deeply involved, will avert serious difficulty. Manchester lacks a similar sys tem, but a more cautious polioy has been pursued there and it is altogether probable that the only result will be heavy pressure on firms weak financially. Tom Cannon Thrown. Hamburg, June 21. —Carl Abs defeated Tom Cannon, tbe American wrestler, in half an hour’s contest to-day. German athletes are jubilant over, the victory as Cannon has hitherto been victorious every where. E x-Emprea3 liugente’s Movements. Paris, June 21.— Ex-Empress Eugenie and Princess Late ia will start for Earns borough to-morrow. A CLERGYMAN BESIQN3. He Charges an rider With Being the Cause of Trouble. Brunswick, Ga., June 21.— Rev. Paul F. Brown resigned the pastorship of the Brunswick Presbyterian church to-day, and, in doing so, entered a protest. It was announced two weeks ago that Mr. Brown would resign and that some developments were looked for. Consequently the congre gation was large. After concluding tbe regular service Mr. Brown read his protest, which contained charges against T. G. Stacy, au eider. The charges stated Mr. Stacy personally disliked Mr. Brown and his manner of preaching in using words too plainly, aud used this personal dislike fn a manner unbecoming an elder, by trying to force him to resign. He also charged Mr. Staoy with causing trouble with other pastors before him, and suggested that Mr. Stacy be asked to resign his eldership. RKV. BROWN LEAVES THE CHURCH. At the conclusion of his remarks Mr. Brown called Jobu R. Cook to tbe chair to act as moderator, and then with his family left tbe church. Mr. Stacy made a reply to tbe charges against him. saying that they bad been made publicly 'ud be desired so to answer them. He positively denied tbe charges and produced a member’s evi dence as proof that be had in the past acted as his conscience and judgment dictated. A motion was made and carried that a vote be taken to decide whether to instruct the delegates to the next presbytery to vote for an acceptance of Mr. Brown’s resignation 1 or uot. In the meantime members left tbe church. The vote resulted in favor of In structing the delegates to aocept the resig nation. DARIEN NEWS DOTS. Rev. Black Accepts the Call of St. Andrew's Cnurch. Darien, Ga., June 21.—The Rev. Mr. Black, who was recently recalled by tbe St. Andrew’s church,this city, has accepted. Mr. Black is now at Suwanee, but will take obarge of the parish about the first of De cember. The prisoners sentenced at the last term of the superior court to the chain- - -wtjhaTe been leased in Atlanta, and tbfc/ UK v now there at work, and the county jail here is new without an inmate. The dredge is potting in some splendid work on tho river between this city and Dobojr, and 16'* gjedicied that when this work is oomt-M *hm" %VY-,RR I’-foot channel fromi*cit v . a lv u, r 10 these* -Tj- QUEEN VIC IN POLITICS. HER INFLUENCE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THE LORDS. The Archbishop of Canterbury Em ployed art a Go-between to Induce tbe Upper House Not to Oppose tbe BUI to Disestablish the Cburch In Ireland. London, June 21.—The position of the queen in English politics is .usually sup posed to be generally passive. Iu foreign politics she has been known, since the life of the prince consort threw Borne light upon the business life of royalty, to be greatly interested. But with internal English poli tics she has hitherto been oredited with interfering little. At an opportune moment, when the conservative scheme of local self governmeut for Ireland is about to be con trasted with Mr. Gladstone’s home rule proposals, her majesty has permitted the publication of a confidential communica tion which she sent to tbe Archbishop of Canterbury on the eve of another crisis in Irish political history—the introduction of the bill for the disestablishment of the church in Ireland. HER OBJECT. The inference is that her majesty desires to make Archbishop Tait’s memoirs the medium of divulging what her attitude then was, with a view to the application of the information to the present events. Her majesty did not ap prove of the disestablishment policy, but she accepted the decision of the country and Commons, used her influence to induoe the lords on one hand ft accept it and the Oladstonians to take con ciliatory methods with tho lords. The Archbishop of Canterbury was her mediator aud go-between, and throughout tbe progress of the disetablishment bill wout through au aotlve period of wire-pulling, interviewing and lobbying, which would have strained the unrree of a professional politician. THE QUEEN’S FEAR. When the bill went into the lords the gen eral expectation was that they would reject it, aud that another of those constitutional orlses would arise which threaten the ex istence of tho upper house, os now consti tuted. The fate of the monarchy is so reasonably associated in the mind of her majesty with that of the hereditary upper house as to create alarm when tho position of tbe latter ap pears menaced. Undoubtedly if tho peers had rejected the disestablishment bill, Mr. Uladstoue would have been baoked up by au enraged country, and the always impend ing agitation to disestablish tbe peers as a legislative body would have received a dangerous momentum. opposition opposed. The queen wrote to the archbishop: "Considering the oircumstance* under which the measure has come to the House of Lords, the queeucanuot regard, without the greatest alarm, the probable effect of its ab solute rejection in that House. Carried os it has been by an overwhelming and steady majority through tbo House of Commons, chosen ex pressly to speak the feeling of the oountry ou the question, there teems no reason to believe that any frosh appeal to the people could lead to a different lesult. The rejec tion of the bill, therefore, would only serve to bring the tiro bouses in collision, and so prolong the dangerous agitation of the subjeot.” These words, pregnant of appli cation in the early future, are being quoted throughout the liberal press as proof in anticipation that the queeu, accepting tbo verdict of the oountry on homo rule, will use all her power and personal Influence to prevent tbe lords from opposing it. RUSSIA' i TOUCHY CZAR. Be Resentß Proposals Being Sent Through the Proper Channel. Paris, June 21.— Comte de Montebello, wbo replaces M. do la Bolauge as Freucb ambassador at St. Petersburg, will be especially oharged to obtain definite infor mation from the czar as to the action of Russia in the event of war between France and Germany. M. Rlbot, minister of foreign affairs, has learned that M. do la Bolauge's failure to get proposals for an aliianoe discussed, arose from the Czar’s anger at the fact that the overtures were first submitted to M. de Giers, tbe Russian minister of foreign affairs, instead of to him. snubbed the minister. Tbe czar ordered M. de Giers to ignore the proposals for negotiations, and took the first occasion to snub M. de la Bolauge,who felt compelled to ask M. Rlbot to relieve him from bia duties. The withdrawal of Baron Mohrenheim, the Russian ambassa dor at Paris, is imminent, as M. de la on his advioe. During the visit of the French squadron to Cronstadt tho ozar will be personally ap proached on the subject of united action against tbe dreibund, whioh is rendered all the more neceasary through tbe menacing of the commercial coalition between tbe two oountrles. PANAMA S COSTLY DITCH. Repeated Official Conferences Held at Parle, Paris, June 21. —M. Monchicourt, liqui dator of the Panama Canal Company, has held repeated conferences with M. Con stant minister of the interior, on the condi tion of tbe company’s affairs. The report that M. Christopole is con sidering a scheme involving tho o. edit fonder in an attempt to revive the canal company is unfounded. Ministers Tollieres and Con stant have hod a meeting with the high ju dicial authorities regarding the prosecution of M. do Lesseps. Official opinion generally tends against bis prosecution, but M. Con stant says publlo feeling demands that the famous engineer be placed on trial. GUATEMALA’S BONDS. A Denial that the President Scooped in $1,200,000. Citv or Mexico, June 21. —The tele grams to the United States that the Guate malan government has issued $6,000,000 in bonks instead of $3,000,000, and that the additional $3,000,000 bad been sold at 40 per cent, and the proceeds pocketed by President Barillas have beep officially denied. Tbe bonds bear the signatures of the treasury and finance m.inlster and the director of ac counts. and did not pass through the hands of President Barillas; besides the bonds were not sold for oash but were used to re deem old treasury notes. Carnot on the Encyclical. Paris, June 21. —The French ambassador to the holy sse has presented to the pope a letter from M. Carnot, in which the presi dent expresses his high appreciation of the pope’s encyclical on social questions. Naval Workshops Burned. Vienna, June 21,—Ths Austrian naval workshops a Vela have been destroyed by fire. BANKER CLEWS' VIEWS. Hla Review of the Financial Outlook in tbe Money Centera. New York, June 20. —The most signifi cant event of tho week was the reduction of the Hank of England rate of discount from 4to S jier cent For months past Lon don has been theobjeotlve point of Interest, the storm center, eo to speak, of the finan cial world; and tbe olouds of distrust wtdeh had gathered in from all parts of the world threatened to burst with renewed fury over those intrepid raorrg on the sea of finance who hod been carrying an over-press of sail in South American waters. The danger signal, however, bos been lowered; tho out look is brighter, and now that suspense is relieved improvement should naturally fol low. Enterprise of all kinds has been held in check for some time past, by fears of tight money. Conservatism appeared im perative In manufacturing as welt as com mercial and financial circles; and no wise manager oared to incur obligations extend it>g Into tbe fall months, whioh a tight money market might interfere with. The result has been a wholesome restraint lfi all directions; which, though pinching severely in some quarters, has left general trade iu a sounder condition than before in spite of the common complaints of dullness. The reduction of the Bank of England rate means that tho tension in Europe is abat ing ; that Ixmdon is prepared for all Russian demands for gold, and has no immediate apprehension about sending gold back to the United States during the fall months in return for euoh grain and other produce at Europe will be obliged to bring. Coincident with the removal of fears about the foreign monetary situation, tho home outlook has also cleared and proves more assuring. The trenaury is expected to meet all obligations this fall; so that un easiness on that score is set at rest. The western bank reeerves are larger than usual, and each year the west grows more inde pendent of oastern aid. Then, too, the money now iu circulation in tbe United States stands at about 1,504 millions, a larger sum than ever before at this season, and larger also than than at the times of heaviest crop demands. Iu 1888, the vear of big orops, the total circulation was 1,371 millions, while now the amount In circula tion is 1,504 millions; a showing of 133 millions in favor of this year. Further evnlenoo of confidence in the future of money is shown by freer offerings iu time money, extending from 60 days to eight months. Merchandise imports, though •mailer than a year ago, are still running in excess of exports, creating an adverse balance; but the probability is that this will be settled later on iu other ways than by gold shipments; though, should further amounts leave, no oonoern need be felt un less they rea. h much larger figures than now seem possible. In tho event of addi tional shipments of the precious metal, it will be due to the fact that we have, at usual, but little else to tend forward at this season of the year. It is tho period between hav aud grass, as it were. In our crops. The wheat and corn orops are far the most important of any single influence affecting tho future or stooks. Indica tions suggest the possibilities of tho largest wheat orop on record, estimate* varying from 500,000,000 to 550,000,000 bushels. These figures should leave a surplus of about 180,000,000 to 200,000,000 bushels for export. If prices only afford a reasonable profit to srowers,5 rowers, and tbe shortage in Europe ren ersit likely that they will, it is easy to see the offset of such a harvest, not only upon the interior, but upon the trade, railroad and financial intoreet of the whole country. Europe will have to take our wheat and pay us In gold. Our soeiiritiee will beoome intrinsically bettor in the opinion of both home and foreign holders. In short, should present hopes concerning tbe harvest bo realized, it would Impart a degree of pros perity such as has not been seen for several years past. However, It will not do to dis count such hope too rapidly, The orops are not yet beyond danger, Prudent men wIU therefore lteop close watch on orop oewi for the next few weeks, and act accordingly. There will be nothing to fear In the foreign situation for Dome month* to oorne. July disbursements are close at band, and an In vestment demand of some importance usu ally experienced for stocks during that month. Our opinion regarding the immedi ate future is hopeful, and favorable to a modorate Improvement in the baslness con ditions. Comfortable money, modorate prices for stocks and good crops are suf ficient to counterbalance all the weak points discoverable at this time. JEFF EPSON'S FAIR. A Big Crowd Expected at Louisville on the Fourth of July. Louisville, (U., June 21.—A big crowd and great horse racing are expected here July 4. The chairman and eecretary of the fair association, William Little and J. F. Brown, have been bestirring themselves to some purpose and have succeeded in having the fair grounds and race track put in first class condition. As the stakes for winning horses are liberal, several first-class run ning and trotting horses Imre already been entered. Louisville is fast becoming noted for its fine horses. W. F. Rivera’ Estelle, a famous trotter for which he has refused over $1,005, will contest for the SIOO purse. Mr. will Hall, the well-known Kentucky horseman, who owns and runs a large livery stable here, has some excellent animals. Mr. R. P. Little, proprietor of another large livery business here, has some fine horses. Sport ing and horsemen from Warrentou, Sparta, Macon and other places are expeoted to be on hand with their fine slock. The racing is onen to all as follows: First race—Open to all, 11 in 5, mile heats, $100; SOS to first, $25 to seoond, $lO to third; entrance fee $5. Second race—Three-min ute class, best.S in 5. half-mile beat, $49; $25 to first, sls to second; entranoe fee $2. Several other races will be run. AN ACCIDENT AT A BRIDGE. Six Men Narrowly Escape Death at Uchee Creek. Columbus, Ga., June 21.—News reaches this city this morning of the miraculous es cape of six men working on a bridge across Uohee Creek, twelve miles from the city, late yeeterday afternoon. Four bents of the bridge gave way aud the men were pre cipitated into the stream below, a distance of thirty feet. John Chodwiok had bis noee broken by a pieee of timber and was badly bruised. Tom Perry was also pretty badly injured. The other men otoapea with painful bruises. Knocked from a Train. Graittville, Ga., June 21.—As train 51 passed Moreland, a small statibn above here, yesterday, having on board a crowd of negro excursionists, one of them, stand ing on the steps, was knocked off the train by the mail post. His skull was crushed, and he Is not expected to live. The accident was due to the negro's carelessness. An Attempt at Suicide. Augusta, Ga. , June 21.—Armond W alker attempted to commit suicide here to-night on McCartan street by drinking an ounce of laudanum. Ha was found on the street nearly dead, but a doctor was hastily sum moned and sucoeeded in saving his life. No cause is known for the attempt. I DAILY, 10 A YEAR ) J 5 CENTS A COPY. J. i ( WEEKLY. 1.25 A YEAR. J TALMAGE TO YOUNG MEN. "THE HOME-SICK SOUL” TBE TITLE OF HIB SERMON. His Text from the Parable of the Prodigal eon—“ The Wagea of Sin is Death”—Pauperism All That Drove tbe Young Man Home—Ruined bp Sin. Brooklyn, N. Y., June 21.— Dr. Tab mage’s sermon this morning was an appeal to young men. Numbers of these oome U the Tabernacle services, many of them froo) country hemes, where they received Chris tian training, which, in the temptations <Ji city life has been cast off. Dr. Talmxgi called hla sermon “The Home-Sick Soul* and his text was from the Parable of th Prodigal Son, Luke xv., 18, “I will arias and go to my father." There is nothing like bungor to take tho energy out of a man. A hungry man can toil neither with pen nor hand nor foot. There has been many an array defeated not so much for laok of ammunition as for laok of bread. It was that fact that took the fire out of this young man of tbe texk Storm and exposure will wear out any man's life in time, but hunger makes quick work. The meat awful cry ever heard on earth it tbe ory for bread. A travelel tells us that in Asia Minor thers are tress which bear fruit looking very much Ilka tbe long bean of our time. It le called tbe | carab. Onoe In a whi's tbe people reduced to destitution would eal these oarabe, but generally the earabs.tbs beans spoken of here iu the text, wore thrown only to the twine aud they crunohed them with great avidity. But this j oung man of my text could not even get them without stealing them. So one day amid tbe twiue troughs he begins to soliloquize. He says: “These are no clothes for a rick man’s son to wear; this is no kind of busi ness for a Jew to be engaged in—feeding swino; I’ll go home, I’ll go home; I will arise and go to my father." 1 know there are a great many people who try to throw a fasolhation, a romance, a halo about sin; but notwithstanding all that Lord Byron and George Hand hav* said iu regard to it it is a mean, low, con temptible business, and putting food aud (odder into the troughs of a herd and iniqui ties that root and wallow in the soul of nuo Is a very poor business for men and women intended to be sons and daughters of ths Lord Almighty. And wbeu this young man resolved to go homo it was a very wise thing for him to do, and tbe only question is whether we will follow him. Satan promises large wages if we will serve him; but ha rlolhee his victims with rags, and he plnohes them with hunger, and wiien they start out to do better he sets after them all tbe blood hounds of perdition. Satan oomes to us to day aud be promises all luxuries, all emolu ments if we will only serve him. Liar, with thee to the pit I “Tbe wages of si a ia, death.” Ol the young man of the text Was wise when be uttered the resolu tion: “I will arise and go to my father." In tbe time of Mary, the persecutor, a persecutor oamo to a Christian woman whe bad hidden in her house for the Lord’s sake one of Christ’s servants, and the perse cutor said : “Whero is that heretic r’ The Christian woman said : “You open that trunk and you will see tbe heretio. ’’ The persecutor opened the trunk, and on the top of the linen of the truuk ho saw a glass. He said : “There ie no heretic here.” “Ah,” she sold, “you look in tbe gloss and you will see the heretio I” As I take up tbe mirror of God’s word to-day, would that instead of seslng the prodigal son of the text, we might see ourselves—our want, our wandering, our sin, our lost condition, so that we might be at wise as this young man was and say : “I will arise and go te my father." The resolution of this text was formed in disgust at his praeut circumstances. If this young man had been by nis employer set to culturing flowers, or training vines over nn arbor, or keeping acoount of the pork market, or overseeing other laboreie, bo would not have thought of going home. If he had had his pockets full of money, if he bad beeu able to say, “1 have a thousand dollars now of my own; what’s the use of my going back to my father's housel do Sou thing I am going baok to apologize to le old man? why, he would put me on the limits; be would not have going on around the old plaoe suoh oonduot as I have been engaged iu; I won't go home; there Is no rouaon why I should go homo; I have plenty of money, plenty of pleasant surroundings t why should Igo borne?” Abl it was his pauperism, it was his beggary. He hod to go home. Home man comes and says to me; “why do you talk about tho ruined state of the human soulf why dnn’c you speak about the progress of the nineteenth century, and talk of something more exhilarating!" It is for this reason; a man never wants the gospel until he realizes be is in a famine struck state. Suppose I should come to you in your home and you are in good, sound, robust health, and I should begin to talk about medicines, and about tiow much better this medicine is than that, and soms other roedioine than some other medicine, and talk about this physician and that phy scian. ! After awhile you would get tired, and yon would say: "I don’t want to hear about medioines. Why do you talk to me of physicians! I never have a doctor." But suppose I come inti your house and I find you severely sick, an# I know the medioines that will cure you, and I know the physician who is skillful enough to meet your case. You say: “Brlna on that physician. lam torribly sick, and I want help.” If I came to you and you feel you are all right In body and all right in mind, and ail right in soul, you have need of nothing; buc suppose I have per suaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sioxness, O, then you sty: “Bring me that balm of the gospel, bring me that divine medicament, bring m Jesus Christ." But says someone in the audience, “bow do you prove that we are in a ruined condi tion by sin?' Well, I can prove it in two wavs, and you may have your onoioe. 1 can prove it either by the statements ol men, or by tho statement of God. Which shall it bel You all say, “let us have the statement of God.” Well, be says in one plaoe: “the heart is deceitful above all thingsfand desperately wioked.” He says In austher place: “what is man that he should be clean! and he which is born of a woman that he sboald be righteous?’ He says in another plaoe: “there is none that doeth good, no, not one.” He says in an other place: “os by one man sin entered into the world, and death by ein; and so death passed upon all men, for that ail have sinned.” “Well,” you say, “I am wil. ling to acknowledge that, but why should I take the particular rescue that you pro pose?’ This is the reason: “Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom ol God.’’ This is the reason. “There is one name given under heaven among men whereby they may be saved.” Then there are a thousand voice* hero ready to s iyi “Well, I am ready to acoept this help of the gospel; I would like to have this divine cure; how shall Igo to work?’ Let me say that a mere whim, an undefined longing amounts to nothing. Yon must have a stout, tremendous resolution like this vouus man of the text when he said: “I wifi arise and go to my father.” • ‘O!’’ says some man, “how do I know mj father wants me! bow do I know, if Igi